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I recently drove a new top of the range, Discovery Sport.
I don’t think I have ever driven such a soulless, boring and bland car in all my life.
Is it me or have car manufacturers really perfected the art of the soulless car?
It makes me sad that character seems to a a word absent from many major manufacturers specification these days.
I don’t think I have ever driven such a soulless, boring and bland car in all my life.
Is it me or have car manufacturers really perfected the art of the soulless car?
It makes me sad that character seems to a a word absent from many major manufacturers specification these days.
Shaw Tarse said:
So what do you usually drive?
A Clio 182 and a Mk4 Golf TDI as a runaround. Even the Golf has a decent character in comparison.
Interestingly I spent some time in MK2 Freelander for a while and as the precursor to the Dcovery Sport it was a much more interesting car IMO.
It's because in general people don't like to think anymore...
Cars are terrible on the whole.
It's like bloody iphones, they've engineered all the dicking about with the IT out of them.
Remember the old days when you spent most of your time fixing everything, now everything works and is in an instant...
Yawn, I long for the excitement of a manual choke, chrome wheels which deflate overnight, computers that crash, satellite TV you have to retune...
Yes cars are designed by boring idiots and bought by them mostly
Cars are terrible on the whole.
It's like bloody iphones, they've engineered all the dicking about with the IT out of them.
Remember the old days when you spent most of your time fixing everything, now everything works and is in an instant...
Yawn, I long for the excitement of a manual choke, chrome wheels which deflate overnight, computers that crash, satellite TV you have to retune...
Yes cars are designed by boring idiots and bought by them mostly
ciege said:
It's because in general people don't like to think anymore...
Cars are terrible on the whole.
It's like bloody iphones, they've engineered all the dicking about with the IT out of them.
Remember the old days when you spent most of your time fixing everything, now everything works and is in an instant...
Yawn, I long for the excitement of a manual choke, chrome wheels which deflate overnight, computers that crash, satellite TV you have to retune...
Yes cars are designed by boring idiots and bought by them mostly
I've never had a car with deflating wheels. That sounds jolly exciting!Cars are terrible on the whole.
It's like bloody iphones, they've engineered all the dicking about with the IT out of them.
Remember the old days when you spent most of your time fixing everything, now everything works and is in an instant...
Yawn, I long for the excitement of a manual choke, chrome wheels which deflate overnight, computers that crash, satellite TV you have to retune...
Yes cars are designed by boring idiots and bought by them mostly
ciege said:
It's because in general people don't like to think anymore...
Cars are terrible on the whole.
It's like bloody iphones, they've engineered all the dicking about with the IT out of them.
Remember the old days when you spent most of your time fixing everything, now everything works and is in an instant...
Yawn, I long for the excitement of a manual choke, chrome wheels which deflate overnight, computers that crash, satellite TV you have to retune...
Yes cars are designed by boring idiots and bought by them mostly
Not sure if you're being serious?Cars are terrible on the whole.
It's like bloody iphones, they've engineered all the dicking about with the IT out of them.
Remember the old days when you spent most of your time fixing everything, now everything works and is in an instant...
Yawn, I long for the excitement of a manual choke, chrome wheels which deflate overnight, computers that crash, satellite TV you have to retune...
Yes cars are designed by boring idiots and bought by them mostly
Cars is much better as cars than they ever have been.
A while ago I had a car with a manual choke (sold the car in 2011), it was s
t compared to EFI.podgeorge said:
I recently drove a new top of the range, Discovery Sport.
I don’t think I have ever driven such a soulless, boring and bland car in all my life.
Is it me or have car manufacturers really perfected the art of the soulless car?
It makes me sad that character seems to a a word absent from many major manufacturers specification these days.
Yeah totally agree, I can think of nothing worse than owning and using something like a 520d or the like, I think when I decide to change cars next I may go back a step and try a 90's era car. Even my 2007 megane does too much for me and never stops fI don’t think I have ever driven such a soulless, boring and bland car in all my life.
Is it me or have car manufacturers really perfected the art of the soulless car?
It makes me sad that character seems to a a word absent from many major manufacturers specification these days.
king beeping, at least it's a fun car though.podgeorge said:
Shaw Tarse said:
So what do you usually drive?
A Clio 182 and a Mk4 Golf TDI as a runaround. Even the Golf has a decent character in comparison.
Interestingly I spent some time in MK2 Freelander for a while and as the precursor to the Dcovery Sport it was a much more interesting car IMO.
Jag_NE said:
podgeorge said:
Shaw Tarse said:
So what do you usually drive?
A Clio 182 and a Mk4 Golf TDI as a runaround. Even the Golf has a decent character in comparison.
Interestingly I spent some time in MK2 Freelander for a while and as the precursor to the Dcovery Sport it was a much more interesting car IMO.
podgeorge said:
Jag_NE said:
podgeorge said:
Shaw Tarse said:
So what do you usually drive?
A Clio 182 and a Mk4 Golf TDI as a runaround. Even the Golf has a decent character in comparison.
Interestingly I spent some time in MK2 Freelander for a while and as the precursor to the Dcovery Sport it was a much more interesting car IMO.
sounds good to meHave cars ever really been interesting in the mainstream? I don’t think so.
Sure a few old sierras where rwd and light but then they broke down and rusted away within 100k
To the majority of people a car is just a tool, a nice place to be on our over crowded bad condition wet roads where you get a Royal bking for stepping out of line.
And when people dare to make a caricterful car no one buys them because they have flaws. Like the Alfa 4c or a GT86
Sure a few old sierras where rwd and light but then they broke down and rusted away within 100k
To the majority of people a car is just a tool, a nice place to be on our over crowded bad condition wet roads where you get a Royal b
king for stepping out of line.And when people dare to make a caricterful car no one buys them because they have flaws. Like the Alfa 4c or a GT86
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